Description

Light Point Security protects enterprises from web-based malware by preventing any web content from ever reaching an employee’s computer. Our award-winning product is the first and only secure web browser. It isolates an employee’s web browsing session within a one-time-use cloud-based virtual machine to stop malware from doing any damage.

History

Light Point Security is a cybersecurity company based in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in February 2010 by Beau Adkins and Zuly Gonzalez after being frustrated by the lack of viable options in web security software. After years of research and development in the application security field, we have developed the world’s safest way to browse the web.

Team

Zuly Gonzalez, Co-founder and CEO

Zuly is the Co-founder and CEO of Light Point Security. Zuly co-founded Light Point Security to solve the biggest problem in cybersecurity today – web-based malware. Zuly heads all business development, marketing, sales and customer acquisition efforts at Light Point Security.

Zuly has over 10 years of experience in the US federal government as an Information Assurance Engineer, Security Vulnerability Analyst and Program Manager for the NSA. In her technical positions, Zuly was responsible for securing national security information systems. As a Program Manager, she managed multi-million dollar Technical Security Countermeasures (TSCM) government contracts, and headed the Counter-IED (Improvised Explosive Device) mission.

Zuly has been a speaker at the RSA Conference, CyberMaryland Conference, and at a multitude of other technical and cybersecurity events. She was named one of Maryland’s 40 Under 40 by the Baltimore Business Journal in 2013.

Zuly holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez Campus, and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Beau is the Co-founder and CTO of Light Point Security. Beau co-founded Light Point Security after recognizing that traditional methods of computer security had fallen behind. Beau heads all product direction and technical efforts at Light Point Security.

Beau has over 10 years of experience in the Intelligence Community as a software developer, security analyst and team lead. In his role as a Global Network Exploitation Analyst for the NSA he learned how dangerous browsing the web had become, and just how unreliable detection-based security truly is.

He later worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Intelesys Corporation, a defense contractor in Maryland.

Beau holds a BS in Computer Science from West Virginia University Institute of Technology, and an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.